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You have been working hard to produce good-quality, original content on your blog and you have attracted a decent amount of traffic by doing so. However, money is not going to appear out of thin air just because you have traffic. You have to turn your traffic into money.

There are several ways to generate profits from the visitors of your blog, and Google’s Adsense program allows you to do so easily.

First, visit their website at http://adsense.google.com/. You’ll find out more about their advertising program there, but here are some extra tips I’d like to share with you.

First, Google’s Adsense program is a really useful way to monetize your blog because when users finish reading your newest post, chances are they want to leave your blog because they have nothing else to do on your blog.

If your Adsense advertisement block is visible on your blog, they might see advertisements relevant to them and click on them to exit your blog. Ka-ching! You’ve just cashed in on your first virtual cents!

But yes, your profits will only be cents if you don’t do it right.

To make more money from Google Adsens, it involves placing your Google ads in the right places and ensuring they blend in to your site so that they appear more like links rather than advertisements to your visitors. Consult the page https://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/static.py?page=tips.html to see the heat map of your web page. The hotter a certain area, the greater the chances of someone looking at your blog.

Once you get a Google Adsense account, you can change the color of your ad text and links. You will want them to match the colors on your blog. If your blog’s text is black and the links are red, do the same for the ad blocks too. It’s that simple.

Another way to earn profits from your blog is to recommend products to your readers. When your visitors buy from the merchants you recommend, you get to keep a little commission too. This is known as affiliate marketing and it is very easy to start because you don’t have to create your own products or services.

Anyway, let’s refer back to our technological gadgets blog example.

Let’s say you discover this Gadget X on a merchant’s website, and they offer an affilliate program. What you would do is to create a post in your blog and do a mini-review on this Gadget X. Rip it apart and point out its benefits and bad points, if any, and include a link (which is given by the merchant) for the visitor to purchase the Gadget X online.

If your visitor clicks and purchases the gadget, the merchant will track from the link that the purchase is referred by you, so they will send you your share of the profits.

Imagine if 1 out of every 100 visitors you get purchases this product, and you earn $27.00 commission from each purchase! If you get 10,000 visitors in a month that would be a $2,700.00 paycheck for you just for writing about ONE product.

Now, affiliate programs are very nice ways to generate profit, but how do you find affiliate programmes that are related to your blog’s theme?

Easy, just go to Google and search for + ‘affiliate programs”. Another slightly better way is to go to a directory like Associate Programs to look for affiliate programmes in your niche. You can also search sites like Clickbank or Linkshare.

The advantage of using a site like Clickbank is that you are selling digital products. The commissions are higher, and customers who buy through you can get their products immediately.

With a site like Linkshare, you can sell a wider variety of products.

The two ways mentioned above are basic ways to generate profits from your blog. If you are looking to build additional streams of income into your blog or your website, then I recommend you download Google Adsense Alternatives. This ebook contains over 30 different programs you can integrate into your website or blog to make more income. (Just right click to download. It’s in PDF).

The value of integrating multiple streams of income into your website or blog is that you have more ways to make money. Just make sure all of the programs match the topic of your website.